AquaModel: Features

AquaModel Features

Displays

Coast line data from many sources, including

              ♦ World Data Bank (WDB-II)
              ♦ World Vector Shoreline (WVS)
              ♦ ArcShape files

Detailed bathymetry
Satellite imagery (over 50 formats, including OpenDAP)
Navigation charts
Multimedia
User-defined GIS shapes
Profile plots (single or multi-trace, histograms, pie-charts, false color charts)
Blob (bubble) plots
Contours
Current vectors
Tidal ellipses
Metadata
Instant web deployment
Google Maps
Google Earth

Modeling Capabilities

Ocean currents

♦ 2-D, 3-D, or merged

Constant or dynamically changing ambient conditions data
Modeled dissolved materials

              ♦ oxygen
              ♦ nitrogen
              ♦ phytoplankton
              ♦ zooplankton

Modeled fish farm waste materials

♦ feed
♦ fecal

Modeled benthic materials

              ♦ Suspended layer
                        feed waste
                        fecal waste
                        oxygen
                        total carbon
              ♦ Sediment layer
                        feed waste
                        fecal waste
                        oxygen, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide
                        aerobic and anaerobic biomass

Multi-farm capability
Multi-species capability
Default characteristics of several commercially important species included
Animated plan and profile displays

              ♦ Dissolved, suspended, and sediment materials
              ♦ Surface and bottom flow velocities
              ♦ Fecal and feed waste streams
              ♦ Fish pen and waste stream properties

Analysis tools

Statistical analysis of imagery
3-D perspective charts
Query measurement, bathymetry, and imagery
Computed water volume within a user-specified region (e.g. bays)
Built-in Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Levenberg-Marquardt multi-dimensional surface search routine
Kernel method 3-D density function calculation
USGS 3-D earth magnetic model (intensity, declination, and magnitude)
3-D current drift model
Fast Fourier transforms
A variety of standard statistical functions

Simulation

User-defined simulation times (start, end, direction, and step)
Simulation capture and replay capability
Animate satellite images and ArcShape files
Animate blob plots, false color images, and profile plots of measurement data
Play/step forward or backward or skip to specified simulation times (where compatible with simulation model)

Import Tools

Database wizard imports ASCII, Excel, or database measurement data
ASCII wizard imports ASCII geographic measurement data to false color raster images
Batch importing of satellite imagery and aerial photographs

Export and Conversion Tools

Export modeled properties to Excel for offline analysis
Convert animated project data (graphic plan view and profile plots) to GoogleMaps or GoogleEarth
Export animated displays to NetCDF image format files
Export graphic displays to BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, or TIFF files
Subset and convert imagery files to Excel or to NetCDF images
Convert ArcShape data to Excel
Integrated with "R" for interactive or off-line analysis of image or profile plot data